Wood Shop

There is a Pattern to the Work

Or in this case, the pattern IS the work.  Frank Kehoe shows off a very elaborate piece of woodworking - be sure to look closely at the full screen image to see the hundreds, maybe thousands of small pyramids milled into the surface of this slab.  This will be sealed and then sent to a foundry for a cast iron pour.  Ultimately the finished castings will provide new threshold plates for Chicago Rapid Transit 1024.  Non skid?  You bet!

Berlin Sander

The work continued on the Berlin Sander, assembling and lowering the deck back onto the mechanism.  That was not without DRAMA.  Bill Peterson and Dave Diaz did a lot of the 'heavy lifting' and here we are only a few parts away from finishing the re-assembly.

A Working Sander

Dave Diaz and Bill Peterson wasted no time after we did some checkout and got the machine running.  Here is one of the two new doors made for Chicago Great Western X 38.  Both doors went through the machine without incident, although I think some more adjustment and fine tuning could be made on the feed rolls.

The Doors

After sanding, both doors had the tails cut off of the stiles.  We leave those long to protect the assembly in handling, but now they are squared off to finished length.  Then we sized and squared the previously made lower panels.  Bill Peterson and Victor Humphreys are calling it a day with the panels in place on the first door.

Interior Tongue and Groove

Warren Newhauser showed up early and got a head start on the T&G we made three weeks ago.  Here he is cleaning them up to ready them for prime painting.  These will be installed in the Milwaukee Road X 5000 dynamometer car.

Priming

Warren, new volunteer Brian Patterson, and Buzz Morisette are busy with the paint for the X 5000 boards.  Yes, it appears Warren was working hard and shed the green shirt he was wearing earlier.